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ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12

Red Hat engineer Paolo Bonzini submitted the initial batch of KVM changes targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel. This is just the first batch and notably lacking all of the KVM x86 Intel/AMD changes for the cycle. But in the non-x86 space there is a fair amo...

2024-09-17 00:00

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AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation

AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far...

2024-09-16 18:00

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Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12

All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...

2024-09-16 16:00

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Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12

The MMC updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel include the introduction of a new kernel subsystem for Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) drivers...

2024-09-16 15:00

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A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started

The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations...

2024-09-16 13:00

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Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files

Following the weekend news of the AMDGPU kernel driver becoming too large that it's causing the Plymouth boot splash screen on slower Linux systems to time-out, longtime AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák expressed a new idea for helping ...

2024-09-16 11:30

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GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11

Building off yesterday's Linux 6.11 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu kernel is now available that is the downstream stripping out driver support/features depending upon closed-source microcode/firmware and other modifications in the name of softwa...

2024-09-16 09:32

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AmpereOne Performance With GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers

While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are...

2024-09-16 08:42

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The File Struct Is Smaller In Linux 6.12 - May Help File Heavy Workloads

The file structure is one of the most widely-used data structures by Linux kernel drivers. The file struct represents an open file and thus obviously very important and ubiquitous throughout the kernel. With the Linux 6.12 kernel the file struct has be...

2024-09-16 06:30

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TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs

Presented earlier this month at the Open-Source Firmware Conference was TamaGo as a means of running Go programming language code bare metal on Arm SoCs as well as eyeing RISC-V too. TamaGo can allow for "0% C and 100% Go code" for ARM/RISC-V device fi...

2024-09-16 06:00

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Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates were among the early pull requests submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle in advance of this week's Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit in Austria. Among the EDAC work this cycle is preparing memor...

2024-09-16 05:00

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Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension

The 64-bit ARM changes were submitted in advance for the now-open Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. There is work for Arm on the confidential computing side this cycle and other new features...

2024-09-16 00:00

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Valkey 8.0 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS

Valkey 8.0 was released today as this leading fork of the Redis open-source code that was started by the Linux Foundation early in the year and backed by organizations from Amazon/AWS to Google Cloud, Oracle, and others. With the Valkey 8.0 release a b...

2024-09-15 19:19

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IO_uring Async Discard Submitted For Linux 6.12

Jens Axboe submitted the block and IO_uring changes already for the now-open Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable from this Linux I/O work is adding async discard support to IO_uring...

2024-09-15 15:51

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Linux 6.11 Kernel Released With Some Snapdragon X1 Laptop Support & Other New Hardware

As expected the Linux 6.11 kernel has been promoted to stable and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 41, and other autumn Linux distribution releases...

2024-09-15 11:12

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Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More

It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features...

2024-09-15 09:03

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AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems

The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this A...

2024-09-15 06:00

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Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes

Yet another early pull request for the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window is the sound (audio) driver updates for this next kernel cycle. There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support...

2024-09-15 05:00

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Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel

Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of...

2024-09-15 04:00

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Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support

With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some...

2024-09-15 00:00

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